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Najib’s credibility still ‘in tatters’ despite PSM6 release, says Lim
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Jeyakumar, Najib Razak, Teoh Beng Hock on Sunday, 31 July 2011
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal
The Malaysian Insider
Jul 30, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, July 30 — Lim Kit Siang today reminded Datuk Seri Najib Razak that his credibility as Prime Minister was “in tatters” due to his administration’s gross mishandling of several issues, and said that the release of the six Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) members from their Emergency Ordinance (EO) detention yesterday did not change anything.
The Prime Minister has insisted that the release of the PSM members, including Sungai Siput MP Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj was done according to the due process of the law, and that it was made by the police based on “their observations.” “It was his greatest failure of leadership as Prime Minister leaving his credibility in tatters — which is why his claim yesterday that the release of the PSM6 under the Emergency Ordinance was in accordance with the rule of law was met with nation-wide derision.”
“Najib cannot be more wrong if he thinks that he had restored his credibility with the release of the PSM6 yesterday,” said Lim in a statement today. Read the rest of this entry »
6 reasons for high-level special investigations squad to break “blue wall of silence” of MACC officers to pinpoint TBH’s killers
Posted by Kit in Teoh Beng Hock on Sunday, 31 July 2011
The James Foong Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into the death of Teoh Beng Hock (TBH) that “TBH was driven to commit suicide by the aggressive, relentless, oppressive and unscrupulous interrogation by certain officers of the MACC”(Para 119) is not acceptable as it is mere speculation and not backed up by evidence.
There are however six reasons from the RCI report why a high-level special investigation squad should be formed to break the conspiracy of “blue wall of silence” (RCI Report) of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers to pinpoint and to bring to book Beng Hock’s killers.
1.The TBH RCI was most scathing in its indictment of the character and testimony of the MACC officers especially from Selangor at the RCI. Apart from two brave and truthful souls from Selangor MACC, i.e. Azeem Hafeez Jamaluddin and Azlan (Para 176), the TBH RCI virtually dismissed the rest as a pack of liars led by Hishamuddin Hashim (HH), the “mastermind” of the massive and unjustified operation which resulted in TBH’s death. Read the rest of this entry »
RCI is utterly wrong to label TBH death as suicide
Posted by Kit in Crime, Teoh Beng Hock on Friday, 29 July 2011
By Dr Chen Man Hin, DAP life advisor
The decision of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the death of Teoh Beng Hock to declare it a suicide is unconscionable and unacceptable to the people who want justice for Teoh Beng Hock and his family.
An incredulous roar of disapproval erupted throughout the country, when the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the death of Teoh Beng Hock announced their verdict that his death was due to suicide.
‘IMPOSSIBLE’ the people said. There was no earthly reason for TBH to commit suicide. He had everything going for him. He was getting married the next day to a wonderful girl and he was going tob e a father, he was holding a good job and faces a bright future. Yes, he was due for questioning by MACC today, but only as a witness and not as a suspect, and only for a few hours. He was the most unlikely candidate to be suicidal.
Unfortunately, TBH after a day of questioning by MACC officers on day 15th, he was found dead the next day 16th on the premises of MACC. There was a coroner’s inquest which returned an open verdict.
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Axe AG, Mat Zain tells Najib
Posted by Kit in Law & Order, Teoh Beng Hock on Friday, 29 July 2011
By Shannon Teoh
The Malaysian Insider
Jul 29, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 — Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim has called on Datuk Seri Najib Razak to sack Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail for repeatedly failing to initiate charges in high-profile cases such as the death of Teoh Beng Hock.
The former city criminal investigation chief said that the Attorney General would “try his best to trick his way to avoid prosecuting those who have clearly given false testimony” in the recent royal commission of inquiry (RCI) into how the former DAP aide fell to his death in a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office.
“For the sake of national interest and holding to the Rule of Law, we hope that the prime minister seriously considers using powers that only he possesses under Article 125 (3) and Article 145 (6) of the Federal Constitution to solve this long-standing crisis,” he wrote in an open letter to the Inspector-General of Police. Read the rest of this entry »
Najib must honour his solemn undertaking to TBH family on 28.7.09 that “no stone will be left unturned” to find out the causes and circumstances of TBH’s death
Posted by Kit in Crime, Najib Razak, Teoh Beng Hock on Thursday, 28 July 2011
Yesterday, the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said he left the decision of penalising the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) trio named in the James Foong Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Teoh Beng Hock’s (TBH) death to the MACC, the police and the Attorney-General.
This is the supreme “passing-the-buck” by the Prime Minister which is as good as saying that no one would be held responsible for Beng Hock’s death.
In the first place, the TBH RCI did not just name three names but quite a list of MACC officers who not only committed a host of crimes, including perjuries at the Royal Commission of Inquiry and the TBH inquest but must be held responsible for Beng Hock’s death.
However, even for the three MACC officers concerned who have been suspended from investigations duties but not as MACC officers, namely Hishammuddin Hashim (Negri Sembilan MACC director who was at the relevant time Deputy Director Selangor MACC and “mastermind” of the massive operation based “on a mere belief and without supporting facts” from a telephone call resulting in Beng Hock’s death); Anuar Ismail the “IO” of the operation and Ashraf Mohd Yunus (described by RCI as “Ashraf the abuser” – “who was Machiavellian in his method to secure evidence”), nothing serious is expected apart from “slap on the wrist”!
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Teoh’s death: ‘Four new leads for police’
Posted by Kit in Crime, Teoh Beng Hock on Thursday, 28 July 2011
By Teoh El Sen | July 27, 2011
Free Malaysia Today
PETALING JAYA: DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang yesterday urged police to re-open investigations into the death of former political aide Teoh Beng Hock based on four new “leads” that the recently released Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) report revealed.
Lim, the Ipoh Timor MP, said police should be investigating Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers for perjury based on the report’s finding that named most of the
MACC officers as “liars”. Read the rest of this entry »
RCI report: Gobind throws Gani a challenge
Posted by Kit in Court, Crime, Law & Order, Teoh Beng Hock on Thursday, 28 July 2011
By G Vinod | July 27, 2011
Free Malaysia Today
KUALA LUMPUR: DAP national legal bureau chairman Gobind Singh Deo wants Attorney- General Abdul Gani Patail to explain why the three MACC officers found responsible for the death of Teoh Beng Hock cannot be charged under the Penal Code.
“If you can’t find anything under the Penal Code to charge them with, come debate with me and I will tell you how,” said Gobind.
Gobind said under the Federal Constitution, only the Attorney-General’s office has the power to prosecute anyone in a court for a criminal offence.
He was speaking at a forum attended by about 500 people at the Kuala Lumpur Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall here yesterday.
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RCI + inquest = ‘big, big mess’
Posted by Kit in Court, Judiciary, Teoh Beng Hock on Thursday, 28 July 2011
By Teoh El Sen | July 28, 2011
Free Malaysia Today
PETALING JAYA: The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into Teoh Beng Hock’s death, which released its findings in a report last Thursday, has created a “big legal mess” by generating more questions than answers, said prominent human rights lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar.
Malik, who represented the Selangor government during the inquest and RCI, said rather than serving its original function to bring a closure to the issue, there are now different conclusions by the RCI and inquest.
“What has resulted is a big, big, mess. We have now a coroner’s decision and a RCI’s, which are saying different things. In law, the coroner’s findings is the determinative one,” the National Human Rights Society president told FMT.
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TBH inquisition reveals racist underpinnings
Posted by Kit in Teoh Beng Hock on Wednesday, 27 July 2011
By CPI | 27 July 2011
What is most telling about the Royal Commission report on Teoh Beng Hock is its total neglect of the two major structural factors accounting for the tragedy – the Umno and MACC agenda convergence, and the racist character of the civil service.
These ingredients together created a scenario where it is difficult to escape the implications that our independent public institutions, like the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission, are neither independent nor public.
It is unsettling to see the MACC operate as a tool of the state. It could be even more unsettling if there was perversion in the MACC’s function such that it resembles the interrogation unit of the secret police as found in some autocracies.
A deconstruction of events leading and consequent to the deadly outcome is necessary to assess the repercussions of Teoh’s tragedy.
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A sham that deceived Malaysia
Posted by Kit in Teoh Beng Hock on Wednesday, 27 July 2011
By Marcus van Geyzel (loyarburok.com) | July 25, 2011
The Malaysian Insider
JULY 25 — As the news filtered in on Thursday that the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Death of Teoh Beng Hock (“the TBH RCI”) had issued its findings, the conclusions seemed simple enough. The TBH RCI concluded that Teoh Beng Hock had been driven to commit suicide due to interrogation by 3 MACC officers in a manner that was “aggressive, relentless, oppressive and unscrupulous”. It seemed straightforward.
The newspaper reports of the findings were simple — after considering the evidence (70 witnesses, 750 pages of written submission, 19,200 pages of written testimonies, and 256 exhibits) before them, these learned members of the TBH RCI had come to this clear conclusion.
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Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad
Posted by Kit in Media, Teoh Beng Hock, UMNO on Wednesday, 27 July 2011
By Zaharom Nain | July 27, 2011
The Malaysian Insider
JULY 27 — Many of us have long been opposed to monopolistic or oligopolistic control of institutions, including media institutions. More often than not, critiques of such control have been levelled at large corporations or moguls. Indeed, such concentration of control often invariably leads to lack of transparency and, of course, of accountability.
Hence, many who are concerned about media freedom and democracy are currently pleased, if not absolutely thrilled, with the reports about the closure of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World (NOTW).
This, and the current revelations about the alleged dirty tricks employed by NOTW reporters and top executives, evidently now put Murdoch’s global media empire under much scrutiny and under threat.
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Teoh Beng Hock – unresolved death
Posted by Kit in Crime, Najib Razak, Teoh Beng Hock, Zunar on Wednesday, 27 July 2011
AG must go if MACC trio not charged, says DAP
Posted by Kit in Court, Crime, Law & Order, Teoh Beng Hock on Wednesday, 27 July 2011
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal | July 27, 2011
The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 — DAP has given Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail an ultimatum: Either prosecute the three Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers linked with Teoh Beng Hock’s death or resign as Attorney-General.
MACC announced on Saturday the temporary suspension of the three officers named in the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) report — former Selangor MACC deputy director Hishammuddin Hashim and enforcement officers Arman Alies and Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus — pending the outcome of an internal probe.
The commission also said yesterday that it will only probe the three officers, and has remained silent on extending investigations to other officers in connection to this case.
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Have the TBH RCI absolved MACC and MACC officers of responsibility for the death of Teoh Beng Hock?
Posted by Kit in Teoh Beng Hock on Wednesday, 27 July 2011
On Thursday, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz made public the James Foong Royal Commission of Inquiry Report on the death of Teoh Beng Hock while in custody, control and care of the MACC at the MACC headquarters at Shah Alam on July 16, 2009.
In an interview with Mingguan Malaysia on Sunday, Nazri said among other things that although the MACC “needs to revamp itself, the RCI had absolved it of murder charges and this should not be questioned further”.
In my speech at the DAP Taman Housing Trust dinner/ceramah in Ipoh on Sunday night, I took Nazri to task for his Mingguan Malaysia interview and in particular his stand that the TBH RCI had absolved MACC and MACC officers of all responsibility for Teoh Beng Hock’s death.
This was why I challenged Nazri to quote the RCI report to show where it had “absolved” MACC of responsibility for Teoh Beng Hock’s death. Read the rest of this entry »
Nazri agrees to debate with Kit Siang over Teoh RCI
Posted by Kit in Teoh Beng Hock on Tuesday, 26 July 2011
By Clara Chooi | July 26, 2011
The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 — Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz today declared his willingness to debate the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into Teoh Beng Hock’s death with Lim Kit Siang.
Through his media officer, the minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, who is now in London, said he would accept Lim’s offer but suggested that the meeting with the DAP stalwart be held after the fasting month of Ramadan.
In a blog posting yesterday, Lim had slammed Nazri (picture) for saying that the Teoh RCI had absolved the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) of murder charges and called on the minister to justify his stand.
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Mat Zain’s Open Letter on TBH RCI report
Posted by Kit in Crime, Police, Teoh Beng Hock on Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Mat Zain bin Ibrahim
26hb.July 2011.
Kepada;
YDH Tan Sri Hji Ismail bin Haji Omar,IGP,
Ketua Polis Negara,
Ibu Pejabat Polis DiRaja Malaysia,
50560 Bukit Aman,
Kuala Lumpur.
Email:iho@rmp.gov.my Dengan Email
YDH Tan Sri,
SURUHANJAYA JAMES FOONG-TINDAKAN SUSULAN POLIS.
Assalamualikum wbt.
1. Sebelum membincangkan perkara tajuk,sukacita saya merujukkan Tan Sri kepada surat saya bertarikh 24.1.2011 yang dialamatkan kepada YBhg.Datuk Idrus Harun,Peguam Cara Negara dengan salinannya kepada YAB Perdana Menteri dan Tan Sri sendiri. Dalam surat tersebut saya telah kemukakan maklumat terprinci berkaitan perbuatan pemalsuan dan manipulasi keterangan serta penggunaan keterangan palsu dalam prosiding Suruhanjaya Read the rest of this entry »
Mat Zain says MACC officers can be charged for Teoh’s suicide
Posted by Kit in Court, Crime, Teoh Beng Hock on Tuesday, 26 July 2011
By Shannon Teoh | July 26, 2011
The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 — A former senior police officer said today that three Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers should be charged for abetting Teoh Beng Hock’s suicide following the release of the royal commission of inquiry’s (RCI) findings.
Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim told the Inspector General of Police in an open letter that then deputy director for Selangor Hishammuddin Hashim, officers Arman Alies and Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus were culpable in the interrogation of Teoh.
The former Kuala Lumpur CID chief noted the RCI said the three men had left the former DAP aide “almost a mental and physical wreck.”
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DAP says RCI report tarnished party image
Posted by Kit in Corruption, DAP, Teoh Beng Hock on Monday, 25 July 2011
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal
July 25, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, July 25 — The DAP today continued criticising the results of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into Teoh Beng Hock’s death, claiming that the report was “inconsistent” and had affected the party’s political image.
The late Teoh’s boss, Ean Yong Hian Wah, charged that the RCI report had failed to include the fact that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigation on him and Teoh had concluded that there were no “elements of corruption and abuse of power”. Read the rest of this entry »
TBH suicide/homicide? – challenge to Nazri to defend his stand
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Teoh Beng Hock on Monday, 25 July 2011
In his interview with Mingguan Malaysia today, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said that the Teoh Beng Hock (TBH) case is closed and that there is no need to form another Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) because the Teoh family and the opposition had rejected the suicide conclusion of the James Foong Royal Commission of Inquiry.
The Malaysian Insider report today on Nazri’s interview with Mingguan Malaysia stated:
“He however added that although the MACC needs to revamp itself, the RCI had absolved it of murder charges and this should not be questioned further. Read the rest of this entry »
UiTM lecturer: MACC officers should be brought to court
Posted by Kit in Court, Crime, Teoh Beng Hock on Monday, 25 July 2011
Bernama | Jul 24, 11
Malaysiakini
Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) law lecturer Assoc Prof Abd Halim Sidek said an investigation should be carried out on the allegation by the Bar Council that Teoh Beng Hock died due to the negligence of MACC officers named in the RCI report.
“If Teoh was driven to suicide as a result of the MACC officers’ action then they must be brought to court,” he said.
“I think the Bar Council president’s statement was premature and he jumped the gun. They must be patient and wait for the investigation,” he added.
Meanwhile a member of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Consultation and Prevention of Corruption Panel, Syed Akhbar Ali, said the non-acceptance of the RCI conclusions by some could also be construed as disrespect for the laws of the country.
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